Pharmaceutical Store Management Practice in Public Health Facilities, North Shoa, Amhara Regional State
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2018-06-25
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Addis Ababa University
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The paper has made a study on the pharmaceutical store management practices in public health facilities, North Shoa,Amhara State with regard to pharmaceutical stock record, arrangement and organization, handling and disposal of expired items , facility and storage condition activities. Pharmaceutical logistics management especially pharmaceutical store management is a challenge for store managers. Since absence of proper storage conditions for pharmaceuticals is leading to loss of potency of drugs, damaging and out of stock for essential drugs. Health facility based descriptive cross-sectional study both qualitative and quantitative study was conducted in 36 public health centers and 5 hospitals. Data was collected using a structured questionnaire from March 14 to April 20, 2018. Data was entered by EPI INFO version 3.1.and and exported and analyzed with SPSS statistical software version 20. Frequencies were used to express the assessment on arrangement and organization, stock record, storage and facility conditions of store management practice of pharmaceuticals. The result indicates majority health facilities were arranged their products with pharmaco-theraputic order, however health facilities were not stored and organized their pharmaceuticals in a manner accessible for first to expire first out (FEFO) principles, bin card was updated on average 56.2% of which almost half of health facilities matching with the physical count at the time of visit, majority of health facilities were separated expired/damaged items from usable stock. Bin-card updating, storage conditions, availability of equipments and lack of adequate space at health facilities were major problems in practicing pharmaceutical store management
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pharmaceutical, health facilities, pharmaceutical storage, storage conditions